Thinking, Fast and Slow

with Daniel Kahneman

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An evening with Daniel Kahneman in Conversation with David Baddiel. Join us for an evening to honour Nobel-prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman. His book Thinking, Fast and Slow sold over a million copies and has become a global phenomenon. There may be no other person on the planet who better understands how and why we make the choices we make; this is a rare opportunity to hear from one of the greatest thinkers of our time. ‘A lifetime’s worth of wisdom’ Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics ‘Buy it fast. Read it slowly. It will change the way you think, on the job, about the world, and in your own life.’ Richard Thaler, co-author of Nudge All ticket prices include a copy of the book. In partnership with Media Partner Read more.

Join us for an evening to honour Nobel-prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman. His book Thinking, Fast and Slow sold over a million copies and has become a global phenomenon. There may be no other person on the planet who better understands how and why we make the choices we make; this is a rare opportunity to hear from one of the greatest thinkers of our time.

‘Buy it fast. Read it slowly. It will change the way you think, on the job, about the world, and in your own life.’ Richard Thaler, co-author of Nudge

All ticket prices include a copy of the book.

In partnership with Media Partner

Daniel Kahneman

A Nobel laureate in economics (one of the only non-economists to earn this honour) and a research psychologist world-renowned for his seminal work on judgment, decision making and happiness and wellbeing, Daniel Kahneman has been hugely influential on notable writers like Richard Thaler, Steven Pinker and Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His ideas have revolutionized economics, medicine, psychology, philosophy, legal studies, and a host of other disciplines by challenging fundamental ideas about rationality in thinking and decision making.

Born in Tel Aviv in 1934, he spent his childhood years in Paris. His father was picked up in the first major roundup of Jews, but was later released. The family spent the rest of the war on the run from the Nazis. In 1954, Kahneman gained his B.Sc, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Mathematics, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He subsequently served in the Psychology department of the Israeli army. He gained his PhD from UCL in Berkeley in 1958.

His long and famous collaboration with Amos Tversky began in 1969. Together they published a series of articles in the field of judgement and decision making, the most important of which was Prospect Theory. They also published Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases in 1974 which was also widely acclaimed.

He is now known as the godfather of behavioural economics – from the “nudge” theory of Richard Thaler to the “black swans” of Nassim Taleb’s work to the “tipping points” from Malcolm Gladwell, virtually all of the world’s biggest pop psychology writers working today have been directly inspired by Daniel Kahneman.

Daniel Kahneman is currently the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Psychology Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.